Sheeple friendly EDC

marcinek said:
How 'bout an AG Russell Woodswalker? I'm considering it.
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Great little knife for the price.
Rounded the handle on mine so it feels a little better.
I use the kydex sheath.
hang it form the neck or just drop it in a pocket.
Non threatening and very usable.
 
Vic Spartan or Tinker with red scales. It's big enough to be useful yet small enough to not cause a scene. It's the friendliest looking knife ever made and no doubt the most recognizable.
 
You can find the Spyderco Kopa for just under a hundred, a good looking knife. I like to carry one handed opening knifes, although when in around sheeples I tend to open it with two hands. ~$100
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I also like the Al Mar SLB. ~$65
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Kershaw Leeks are pretty harmless looking. Get the rainbow leek for max sheeple friendly. Doesn't look sheeple friendly in the picture, but they are so small they don't bother people. Or go even smaller with a Chive. Walmart has rainbow leeks for ~$55
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And while I am at it you might get away with the Boker Subcom Folder. ~$35
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-Mat
 
I carry my benchmade mini rukus in a financial office every day and use it all the time and I think its the way the handle is colored. It gets fewer looks than my all black delica did.
 
A red handled SAK. A classic,a minichamp or an executive. Or a 84mm SAK. SOSAK had a good one hand mod of a 84mm waiter (waiter has blade/combo tool/corkscrew basically a one layer minimalist SAK)
http://www.sosakonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=35
Oh yeah track down what the campus regs are regarding acceptable knife carry.Don't want to get expelled if a sheeple rats you out. Try to get the regs anonymously if possible. Some campus's are VERY weird and paranoid.
 
Spyderco Lava.

If these Sheeple are especially pathetic.... Leatherman Micra. (Who's gonna freak out over your tiny pair of folding scissors?)
 
http://www.wrcase.com/knives/pocket_knives/browsefolding2.php?Family='John%20Deere%20Lockback'&Folding='1'&Item='1826'
Never used it, but it is Case, and looks nice to me.
 
The only truly sheeple friendly knife is one that needs two hands to open and isn't black.

Size plays a much smaller role than looks. I use a full size red SAK Tinker in front of sheep and nobody thinks twice. I don't think you can beat a SAK for quality to price ratio and they can be found so cheap you almost don't mind losing one every now and then.
 
I carry a Byrd Meadowlark G10 in the back pocket for bigger stuff, but when the office types come by I use my Alox SAK Cadet. Although, people still are surprised at the SAK. I think just the sight of any knife bugs a lot of people these days - my observation. I would say get a SAK or traditional folder such as ones from Case to EDC. Here's a crappy pic of my EDCers:

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Definitely get a SAK for the tools at least, and because it won't bother anyone except the ones who really, really want to be bothered. :)

Get a small, flat folder, like a Spyderco. I like my Boker Subcom a lot. I just got its big brother, the Boker Trance, which is a real winner. 4" handle, 2.75" blade. I can hide the closed knife in my hand and place my thumb the length of the opened blade. Same construction standards as the Subcom.

The Subcom & Trance & One-Hand Trekker should cost less than $100 shipped.
 
cybrok said:
Yep, everything that my actual EDC, a Heat, is not.

I'm not really into slipjoints. Maybe a locking SAK. I already planned to get a one hand trekker.
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Wenger makes some smaller locking SAKs. The Evo line is interesting ... check them out.

:)
 
marcinek said:
How 'bout an AG Russell Woodswalker? I'm considering it.

If a fixed blade is out, Spyderco Kiwi.
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I've just started trying a Bark River Mini Canadian in a Woodswalker pocket sheath. It's a good supplement to my multitool.
 
My vote would be for a stainless Spyderco Dragonfly with the clip off if it has to just be one knife ... :D. I also like the stainless Cricket for pocket carry. The Kiwi is likely more sheeple friendly than the Fly and Cricket, but ... also more expensive.

I also REALLY like the Boker Subcom. It is successfully grabbing the "little-big-knife" corner of the market where a couple of other models just didn't ever really catch on. Most notably the Salsa. Boker is now selling a "sheeple" friendly green version of the Subcom.

Suggest you get all of the above and use them in an every-day-rotation .. :D
If you shop it right on Ebay, you would likely end up with a NIB Dragonfly, Cricket, and Subcom delivered to your door for less than $100.

Razz
 
A lot of these are good suggestions and they mainly involve small, cutely shaped knives that are SS or have brightly colored handles. I think this is a generally good rule to go by.

You might want to think about what you would want from a folder as EDC - blade length, blade shape, lock, etc.
 
I should start threads like this when I have slept...

I remembered I have a Laguiole with thumb stud/liner lock I bought for its "sheeple-friendlyness". One like this I had at 50%.

One of the wooden scales fell off, I fixed it with epoxy glue.

Still, this thread can be useful to anyone that needs a sheeple-friendly knife :)
 
a big factor is presentation, example: I often carry my endura II it is big, shiney and loud if I whip it out fast holding it by the hole/blade and snap the handel in to place all in a quick fluid motion (sends sheeple running in fear), but same knife, different presentation, take it out of your pocket holding it with an open hand palm up so everybody can see it , then grasp it normal and open it one handed (not too fast) very few sheeple can freak out about that sometimes I even say "I got a knife we can use" or something like that., pepole are generaly only affraid of what they don't know about.

just my $.02
 
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